Our first century: being a popular descriptive portraiture of the one hundred great and memorable events of perpetual interest in the history of our country, political, military, mechanical, social, scientific and commercial: embracing also delineations of all the great historic characters celebrated in the annals of the republic; men of heroism, statesmanship, genius, oratory, adventure and philanthropy . side twenty avenues, named after the older states of the Union, which cross thestreets at various angles and connect themost important points of the city, formingat their intersection with t
Our first century: being a popular descriptive portraiture of the one hundred great and memorable events of perpetual interest in the history of our country, political, military, mechanical, social, scientific and commercial: embracing also delineations of all the great historic characters celebrated in the annals of the republic; men of heroism, statesmanship, genius, oratory, adventure and philanthropy . side twenty avenues, named after the older states of the Union, which cross thestreets at various angles and connect themost important points of the city, formingat their intersection with the streets andwith each other numerous openspaces. These grand avenues arefrom one hundred and thirty toone hundred and sixty feet uni-form width; the principal of theseis called in honor of the state ofPennsylvania, and extends fromGeorgetown to the Anacostia, adistance of four miles. It formsthe main avenue of communicationI>etween the capitol and the presi- J dents house and the chief offices •_ of government. The capitol com-mands MarjIand, Delaware, NewJersey, Pennsjlvania, Maine, andMissouri avenues; the presidents house,Pennsjdvania, New York, Vermont, andConnecticut avenues. The effect of thisarrangement, taken in connection withthe natural advantages of the site, isexceedingly fine—one of the finest inthe world, for a city. From the hill, inespecial, on which stands the capitol, the. BVMBOLtO STATCF. OF AMERICA 8URM00NT1MOTHE U. 8. CAPITOL. most noble view presents itself to the eyeof the beholder that the imagination canconceive. On the fourth of Jul}-, 1851, GREAT AND MEMORABLE EVENTS. 173 the corner-stone of that magnificent ex-tension of the capitol which has renderedit the most superb structure of its kind inthe world, was laid with splendid ceremo-nial, including a commemorative orationby President Fillmore, assisted by DanielWebster, secretary of state. In the stonewas also deposited a record of the event,with the following impressive statementand invocat
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